One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Hail Caesar! (2016)

In the Coen Brothers latest “Hail Caesar!” we have exactly the same Hollywood-based mix of communist writers and Hedda Hopper-style gossip columnists as recently seem in “Trumbo”:  but the films could hardly be more different. “Hail Caesar!” is the film within the film: the latest Victor Mature style ‘God and Sandals’ epic for Capitol Pictures, … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Foxcatcher (2015)

Every comedian clearly has a burning desire to be seen as a “serious actor” at least once in their career:  Jim Carrey had his “Truman Show”;  Steve Coogan wrote himself into “Philomena”; and (whilst he has denied that he is desperate for this sort of attention) Foxcatcher is Steve Carell’s turn…. and boy does he … Read more